Senior AI & NLP Engineer - Relocation to Brussels

All European Careers; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A renowned European recruitment institution is seeking a Senior AI & NLP Engineer willing to relocate to Brussels. The role requires over 13 years of IT experience, proficiency in programming languages like Perl and Python, and expertise in NLP/ML techniques. Responsibilities include developing software applications for AI and ML, training models, and ensuring data quality. Interested candidates should send their CVs to the provided application email.

Qualifications

• 13+ years of IT experience needed.
• Proficient in NLP/ML libraries and frameworks.
• Strong understanding of data analytics over big datasets.

Responsibilities

• Develop software applications in AI, ML, NLP fields.
• Train machine learning models on structured/unstructured data.
• Implement performance tracking systems for processed data.
• Define data controls to ensure quality and integrity.
• Analyse data architecture for consistency and completeness.

Skills

Perl

Python

Matlab

R

NLP techniques

Machine Learning

AWS

Azure

SQL

Linux

Data visualisation

Bash scripting

Education

Certification in AWS Certified Machine Learning

Microsoft Azure AI Engineer Associate

SAS Certified Professional AI and Machine Learning Certification

Tools

SpaCy

NLTK

scikit-learn

pandas

MongoDB

Cassandra

HBase

D3.js

GGplot

Job description

Senior AI & NLP Engineer - Relocation to Brussels

We are looking for a Senior AI & NLP Engineer for a European institution in Brussels who will relocate to Brussels. Candidates should be based in Belgium or willing to relocate, be fluent in English, and possess the required work permit.

This position is open for contractors and does not provide a work permit.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Development and maintenance of software applications in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML) and/or Artificial Intelligence (AI).
• Training of custom machine learning / deep learning models based on structured and unstructured data.
• Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using ML techniques.
• Developments aiming at improving the quality of machine translation (MT) engines for each installed language pair.
• Interact with data stewards and other IT stakeholders to define the data rules.
• Define data controls and implement actions to ensure data quality and integrity.
• Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance.
• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis.
• Design the IT architecture for solitons in the NLP / ML / AI fields, and coordinate its implementation considering master- and meta-data management concepts.
• Analyse data architecture for consistency, completeness, accuracy, and reasonableness.
• Contributing for the analysis of data management vision, strategy and policy and derive the IT requirements.
• Provision of expert advice and assistance in any area associated with the AI and Data Warehouse technologies.
• Perform design, development and maintenance of BI and reporting software that both follow the reference architecture rules and accurately implement the specifications.
• Assistance and support to the Advanced Analytics developers.
• Provision of technical studies, technical expertise, technical evaluations in relation with AI systems.

Profile

• +13 years of IT experience.
• Excellent experience of Perl, Python, Matlab, R and its NLP/ML libraries (SpaCy, NLTK, scikit-learn, pandas…).
• Strong experience with ML techniques and algorithms, such as k‑NN, Naïve Bayes, SVM, Decision Forests, Neural Network, and AI frameworks.
• Experience in corpus based linguistics and alignment models and classification methods.
• Experience with data analytics over big datasets, non‑structured databases as well as data lakes.
• Previous experience with Data Management, Database Mining systems and in Big Data technologies.
• Experience with AWS and/or Azure, Oracle RDBMS and PL‑SQL.
• Previous exposure with Linux, Unix, Bash and scripting languages.
• Good knowledge of natural language processing systems lifecycle and agile software development methodologies.
• Good knowledge of quality assurance and quality control for machine translation (MT) and experience with MT quality procedures, testing methodologies and tools, such as automatic quality metrics (BLEU scores and similar) and human evaluation of MT quality.
• Some experience with query languages, such as SQL, Hive, Pig, etc.
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases, such as MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase, etc.
• Knowledge of data visualisation tools, such as D3.js, GGplot, etc.
• Certification in AWS Certified Machine Learning or Microsoft Azure AI Engineer Associate or SAS Certified Professional AI and Machine Learning Certification is an Advantage.

Interested?

If you are interested in this opportunity, please forward your CV to [e-mail].

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